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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Children, Caution
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Victor Hugo
Death, Wisdom, Live Life
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Views
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.810, Wordsworth Editions

Toleration is the best religion.

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Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, People, Perfection

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Victor Hugo
Life, Wisdom, Les Mis
Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.286, Courier Corporation

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo
Funny, Wisdom, Witty
Victor Hugo (2004). “Notre-Dame de Paris”, p.144, Penguin UK

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Decision, Style

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Verbs
Contemplations bk. 1, no. 8 (1856)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo
Music, Wisdom, Art
Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion
Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Insult, Les Miserable
Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Children, Men

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Pain, Men

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Sacred, Communion
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo
Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Art, Kings
Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Children, Artist

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Sea, Sky
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Light, Gnats
Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Flower, Suffering
Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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Wisdom, Paradise, Hell
Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.393, Victor Hugo

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